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Artzeinu ○ www.artzeinu.org ○ Vol. 20 No. 672 ○ June 12, 2021

All eyes on as In past swearing-in ceremonies, the Atid party and a wide array of parties opposition leader has also been called to aligned against Netanyahu, ranging from p lawmakers prepare for deliver a speech before the plenum. Thus, the dovish to the pro-annexation Sunday's crucial vote it is likely that Netanyahu will deliver his and the Islamist party Ra’am. first speech in more than 10 years without 's 36th government will be sworn in Arson believed to be cause holding the title of prime minister. on Sunday barring some unforeseen of area fires development or a last-minute defection, The Knesset would then elect a new Fire authorities increasingly believe Israel Hayom reports. speaker, who will hold a vote of confidence in the new government. If it several massive wildfires that broke out This would end Prime Minister Benjamin gets approved, the government will have on the outskirts of Jerusalem and in the Netanyahu's premiership and make him been officially installed and the new West Bank were deliberate acts of arson, the head of the Opposition. prime minister will be sworn in and likely set by Palestinians, The Times of The procedures to install a new pledge allegiance to the country and its Israel reports. government could take several hours, laws, as well as vow to faithfully execute Blazes that broke out in forested areas potentially creating drama all through the the office and uphold the Knesset's west of Jerusalem during the afternoon day, as pro-Netanyahu lawmakers may try decisions. prompted the Israel Fire and Rescue until the very last moment to ensure the promises peaceful Services to evacuate dozens of residents crucial vote to officially swear in a in the area. Later in the afternoon, several government fails. transition of power, again more fires were ignited in the northern The Knesset will convene for a special accuses Bennett of fraud West Bank. plenum meeting at 4 p.m. on Sunday for By Wednesday evening, the fires were Prime Minister ’s the swearing-in. The meeting will be brought under control. There were no Likud party on Thursday issued a attended by President , who immediate reports of injuries or damage clarification of the premier’s claims of tasked the MK to form a to property in the fires. An initial estimate “election fraud” in Israel that made government about six weeks ago after put the area of scorched forest at 2,650 international headlines and drew Netanyahu had failed to do so in his dunams (655 acres). Though officials comparisons to former US president allotted period. Lapid, who agreed to a were not giving a verdict, deliberate arson Donald Trump, The Times of Israel rotating premiership with leader is being considered because the area reports. as part of a so-called where the fires broke out is close to "change coalition" to replace Netanyahu, In an English tweet thread retweeted by Israel’s security barrier with the West will let Bennett represent him at the the premier, the party for the first time Bank. meeting since he will be prime minister said that Netanyahu is committed to a Roads and highways in the area were also for the first two years of the prospective “peaceful transition of power.” briefly shut, including a portion of Route government's four-year term. However, his office has refused to state 1, the main highway connecting After Knesset Speaker whether the prime minister will be Jerusalem and .At 2 p.m., the invites Bennett to present his cabinet, the attending the traditional handover Israel Railways announced that it was right-wing leader will deliver his ceremony of the premiership on Monday, halting trains on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv inaugural speech and outline the and a transitional briefing with incoming line due to the fire. The trains resumed coalition's basic guidelines, as is required premier Naftali Bennett has not yet been several hours later. by law, under which he would spell out scheduled, with the government swear-in his policy agenda. Lapid, who will hold less than three days away. After outcry, Omar backs off the title of alternate prime minister until Bennett is set to become prime minister Israel, US terror claim his turn comes, will then deliver his own after he reached a coalition deal with Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar inaugural address. opposition leader Yair Lapid of the Yesh (D-MN0 on Thursday hit back against criticism from Jewish colleagues who the current Israeli government’s policies; country last month, JNS reports. accused her of equating the US and Israel their prolongation of an untenable Har-Even, 84, was staying with his wife with Hamas and the Taliban, The Times occupation.” at the Effendi Hotel in Akko when Arab of Israel reports. theAfter being criticized for questioning or rioters set fire to it on May 11. Though “It’s shameful for colleagues who call me excusing antisemitism, Stone wrote: his wife was saved, Har-Even suffered when they need my support to now put “Very sorry if my last Tweet suggested serious burns and smoke inhalation. He out a statement asking for ‘clarification’ that anti-Semitism is in any way was transferred to Haifa’s Rambam and not just call,” Omar tweeted. “The imagined” or caused by Israel. Medical Center for treatment, where he Islamophobic tropes in this statement are UNRWA condemns terror finally succumbed to his wounds. offensive. The constant harassment & Har-Even led the Israel Space Agency silencing from the signers of this letter is tunnel built under school from 1995 to 2004. Due largely to the unbearable.” The United Nations’ Palestinian refugee work of Har-Even, Israel is now a space Her post linked to a statement signed by agency has condemned the construction of power on a global scale, said current ISA 12 Jewish Democrats who said Ilhan’s a tunnel under a school it operates in the Director-General Avi Blasberger. Har- grouping of the US and Israel with the central Gaza Strip, which was apparently Even also won the Israel Defense Prize Taliban and Hamas in remarks about targeted by the for efforts that remain secret to this day. pursuing war crimes prosecutions gave during last month’s 11-day battle between During the disturbances in Akko, Arab “cover to terrorist groups.” Israel and the Hamas terror group, rioters threw rocks, torched several In a subsequent statement on Thursday, according to The Times of Israel. hotels, burned boats in the port, attacked Omar said: “On Monday, I asked In its statement, the UN Relief and Works Jewish passersby and raised a Palestinian Secretary of State Antony Blinken about Agency (UNRWA) also denounced the flag in the center of the city. ongoing International Criminal Court Israeli strikes on the tunnel. A furry loophole investigations. To be clear: the According to UNRWA, the Israeli attacks Israel has become the first nation in the conversation was about accountability for on the compound in Gaza City’s Rimal world to ban the import and sale of specific incidents regarding those ICC neighborhood took place on May 13 and animal furs, thanks to a bill signed into cases, not a moral comparison between 15 when the complex was empty. There law in the Knesset on Wednesday, after it Hamas and the Taliban and the US and were no injuries. Israel. was first passed in the fall of 2020, The UNRWA and other schools in Gaza have Forward reports. “I was in no way equating terrorist been used in the past to store and launch With one glaring loophole. organizations with democratic countries rockets at Israel. In one case during the with well-established judicial systems,” latest round of fighting, the Israel Defense The legislation allows fur to be used for she added. She did not tweet the Forces determined that the courtyard of at religious purposes, and so it permits the statement. least one school housed 14 underground import of shtreimels, the cylindrical fur 2 journalists apologize for rocket launchpads, which it said were hats worn by many Hasidic men which used during the fighting. are often made from the tails of sable — anti-Semitism a small, furry mammal found in northern In its statement, UNRWA denounced the Asian and Russian forests. A journalist who wrote "Free Palestine construction of the tunnel, but did not and Gaza" on the walls of the former identify the group responsible for it. People for the Ethical Treatment of Warsaw Ghetto has been tasked with Animals (PETA), which had long teaching about anti-Semitism, Arutz Ex-space chief succumbs lobbied for the law, praised the move and Sheva reports. Avi Har-Even, former director-general of , the MK who first proposed The journalist whose name is Ewa the Israel Space Agency, died on Sunday the bill. Jasiewicz wrote the slogan in 2010 and from complications related to injuries he since then has given three sessions titled suffered during the riots that rocked the “Understanding Anti-Semitism" to members of a British teachers union according to the Jewish News of London. Another journalist, Mark Stone, who works for Sky News apologized for telling a Jewish person on Twitter who had been complaining about anti- Artzeinu, online at www.artzeinu.org, is published weekly by Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, 125 E. 85th Street, Semitism that “the ‘Jew hatred’ you New York, NY 10028. To get Artzeinu in your shul, email [email protected]. The Artzeinu team: experience is actually the consequence of Amichai Gelman, Bennett R. Katz, JJ Hornblass. Founder: Deena Shiff.